Surgeon&#39;s glove.



H. W. WARREN.

SURGEONS GLOVE.

APPLIOATION IILED JULY 17,1908.

Patnted Apr. 27, 1909.

Witumeo SURGEONS GLOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 17, 1908.

, Y Patented April 27, 1909.

' Serial m3. 444,046.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARLEY W. WARREN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cuyahoga Falls, in the county of Summit 3 sense of touchmust be very cute so that and State of Ohio, have" invented certain, theoperator can instantly and without misnew and useful Improvements inSurgeons take know by the sense of touch the various Gloves; and I dohereby declare that the i nerves and other parts of the body, uponfollowin isa full, clear, and exact descripwhich his fingers come incontact. tion of t e same, reference being had to the order toaccomplish this result the ends of accompanying drawing, making a partof l the fingers of the glove or in other words a this specification,and to the numerals of portion of the fingers at their tip ends arereference marked thereon, in which-, formed smooth. The material fromwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2i is an enlarged sectionalview taken longitudinally through one of the fingers of the love. i

The present invention has relation to surgeons gloves designed moreespecially for use in surgical operations and it consists in the novelconstruction hereinafter described.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing, 1 represents the body or hand portion ofthe glove and 2 represents the fingers and 3 the thumb, said parts justabove mentioned so geons glove pebbled or roughened upon its far astheir formation is concerned as to hand surface and its fingersprovidedwith the fitting of the" fingers and hand and i smooth surfaces,substantially as and for wrisare of the usual formation, except as g thepurpose specified. to the outer or contact surface of the hand, 2. As animproved article of manufacture, thumb and finger portions of the glove:1 surgeons glove provided with roughened proper. hand and thumbsurfaces and smooth une It is well understood that in the handlingroughened finger surfaces, substantially as of surgeons instruments itis exceedingly and for the purpose s ecified. necessarythat takes placeas In testimony that no slipping between the tool used and the hand ofthe have hereunto subscribed presence of two witnesses.

operator, and in order to prevent this HARLEY WARREN.

late the various instruments used in surgic al operations without dangerto the patient. It is also well understood that the like material andhence the sense of touch is not interfered with to such an extent as itotherwise would be if the tip ends or por- .tions of the .fingers wereroughened or pebbled. In the drawing I have illustrated the thumb of theglove roughened or pebbled throughout itsentire length, so that thethumb of the hand can be used if desired for gripping purposes in theordinary man- I181. Having fully described my invention what I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a surmy name 1n the slippingmovement, the hand surface and portions of the finger surfaces togetherwith the thumb are roughened'- or what is more 1v Witnesses: commonlytermed pebbled, so that an oper- SYLVIA Boson, ator can with a glovecovered ,hand manlpu- 'F. W. Bonn.

the glove is made is of quite thin rubber or claim the above, I

